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Good to see. My viewing list has shrunk to just Matt Easton and Todd's workshop (both of whom have fewer videos than in years past). Nice to see some new talent in the content pool. I remember that book. It certainly was an upgrade if you otherwise only had the brief PHB descriptions. And...

Comedies in particular are super hit or miss. It's hard to predict what people will latch onto. Attaching it to an existing property does less than it would for something like an action franchise. This one will have to sink or swim based on its own merits. It's not needed in that Boomers/X-ers...

Hmm. In my experience, the obvious stuff (FTL travel, magic making/destroying matter, no guns alongside plate, artificial gravity, squared-cubed laws and giant fantasy creatures, open-topped castles in a world with griffons, etc.) usually gets called out as part of those "save where noted." It's...

Preemptive statement: being exhausted by continuous complaining is perfectly reasonable, regardless of whether the complaining is reasonable/unreasonable, productive/unproductive, whether the complainers have reasonable other choices or not, and anything else. Negative emotions are exhausting...

That's why we used to have one tied to our belts. Some people thought they were just fashion accessories of course.

Oh, absolutely. This is a worthwhile subject of discussion.

This isn't any more representative than your own personal experience, but back in the (late) 3e days the alignment and Book of Exalted Deeds/Book of Vile Darkness subforums on the Wizards.com forum were absolutely hopping, and home to some of the most over-the-top vitriolic nerd rage the early...

The cancelled user account suggests that this is wasted effort, but here goes. There are undoubtedly and inarguably people who use jargon to exclude or to feel important. Everyone was young once (and some people never grow into well-adjusted social skills), and both TTRPGs and internet...

This not wrong. However, the same could be said about nearly all spells and abilities that players (and monsters who have them) bring to bear. Most of them last 10 rounds, and few more than 10 minutes (and very few of them have long enough range to affect those that flee). If the enemies can...

I think there are plenty of gamers who saw powerful game arcs with qualities of those stories that DnD (sometimes*) embodies. I think there are also plenty of gamers who saw lawful stupid paladins or incredibly vicious playgroup arguments over whether an specific fictional act was good, evil...

Actually, it confuses me. If you started playing in 76, you would have had to have started with oD&D, as AD&D wasn't out yet. If you were born in 76, then AD&D all the way and buying 2nd edition books meaning a lot of mown lawns makes a lot of sense, but having spurned AD&D for DragonQuest back...

I think the largest issue is splitting the focus/how to keep others engaged while the focus hovers on one character to the exclusion of others. It's the Shadowrun/Cyberpunk 'hacker problem' writ large. While individual people have found solutions that work for them, overall I think it is one of...

I suspect it is already too late to have a meaningful effect. I would advocate a clarification or follow-up on your original tweet, as there it would have impact outside this tempest in a teapot.

'salright. I thought I was being 'Ackchyually'-ed by someone deliberately misrepresenting what I'd said to get the opportunity to 'correct' me. Glad to know it was simply a misread. So yes to the unified general mechanics, no race/class/level restrictions, uniform xp requirements, skills...

Only if 1) the walking away from others does not have an opportunity cost/incur some other vulnerability, and 2) if enemies actually do space themselves out. Regardless, please note what I said:

And here I was thinking you were suggesting a solar flare or asteroid impact.

Interesting. My experience was that most groups I knew of BitD didn't consider them optional. Someone had to play the thief (the trapfinder and lock-opener), like someone had to play the cleric (the HP battery). The cleric got some cool spells (in the levels which didn't also include cures) and...

This is an interesting (set of) point(s). Fireball is low tier if you don't use the enemies it is best at (in part because it tends to take them out), if they use anti-fireball tactics, and if you have a character that can address that type of opponent with a class feature. I mean, it's still...

Transmuter to Fighter/Thief: "I don't think you're going to get lucky tonight, this is a pray bar."

I mean, sure. The 'completely different games' bit is anti-Arneson-lawsuit boilerplate, so you can add stuff on to B/BX/BE-parts-of-BECMI or pare stuff down from AD&D and end up within spitting distance of each other. The differences you end up with will be trivialities like whether the reaction...